Uh, Larry K., do you mean the majority of elected officials who are African-Americans are from the south? Would you care to supply some evidence, or are you just lobbing a worthless shitball?

One of the strategies long employed in the south (and just this past cycle in Texas) is to redistrict so that white Democrats are placed into majority Republican disctricts. Their votes will thus not contribute to the election of any candidates to legislatures or to Congress. The only Democratic districts left, then, are mostly black. The point is to make it less and less viable to be a white Democrat in the South, and to turn the Democratic party into a black ghetto. Therefore, it should not surprise us to see many local politicians, up to the House of Representatives, who are black. Their districts have been arranged to make this happen, as a way to DIVIDE whites and blacks, not to show enlightenment and a desire for Black representatives.

How about the Senate, where the whole state votes? Since the popular vote was instituted, only three Black Senators have served: one from Massachusetts and two from Illinois. (actually, Obama has yet to serve, but he has been elected from Illinois).

Previously, there had been two Black Senators, both from Mississippi, when the Senators were chosen by state legislators. Both served immediately after the Civil war, as a symbolic measure intended to smooth Mississippi's readmittance to the Union. (The first was appointed to serve out the remainder of Jefferson Davis's term!) Once everything was back to staus quo, no more blacks from the south for more than a Century!